I love RPG Maker. I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it. I love anything that encourages people to be creative and get “hands on” with their favourite hobbies, rather than being passive consumers of it. I love Tyranobuilder because it lets people make their own…
Read MoreI still haven’t finished The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. I’ve spent hours upon hours adventuring across the beautiful landscape of Novigrad or sailing the seas surrounding Skelliege, but I still haven’t quite seen it all. And now I’ve got even more to work though, in the well worn boots of…
Read MoreSword Coast Legends takes us back to the popular world of Forgotten Realms that so inspired a generation of RPG fans way back with the likes of Baldur’s Gate and Icewind Dale. This particular offering has two distinct components. One is the ability to play campaigns, including the one crafted…
Read MoreThe original Evoland set itself up to be something different than the normal average everyday retro throwback experience. In it, players would move through the various eras of gameplay, with levels representing everything from games we would see on the most primitive of platforms, through to the fully nuanced worlds…
Read MoreEvery time I play Abyss Odyssey I respect it more and more. I respect it not just because it’s a fun game (though it certainly is), but it is also because I like and appreciate what it represents. For Abyss Odyssey is a game by ACE Team, a Chilean developer,…
Read MorePreviously announced at its E3 2015 press conference, Square Enix has begun giving fans small tastes of what it to come from the upcoming RPG, Project Setsuna. In an interview with Japanese gaming magazine, Famitsu, Square Enix producer, Yosuke Matsuda, confirmed that the working title (Project Setsuna) comes from the Japanese…
Read MoreDungeon Souls is an RPG for those who think the genre has become too bloated and complex over time. Taking inspirations from games such as Gauntlet and Risk of Rain, Dungeon Souls is part dungeon crawler and part top-down shooter as players guide their pixelated avatars through neon hallways fighting…
Read MoreThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is the very epitome of blockbuster game design. In that lofty caste of game developers able to produce titles with obscene production values made by a veritable ant farm of workers it sits comfortably on an iron throne it carved from the bodies of its…
Read MoreHighlands is a turn-based strategy game by Burrito Studio, another one of those micro indie development teams. And, as the team’s first game, its a good one, with plenty to offer fans of the RPG and strategy genres. Highlands’ setting is reasonably unique, taking place on a series of floating…
Read MoreLegend of Grimrock was something of an indie revelation when it was released on the PC back in 2012. As an attempt to modernise the classic dungeon crawler, it retained the nostalgic rush that had people glued to their screens back when Might & Magic, Wizardry, and SSI’s Dungeons &…
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